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Elombah.com
...The
damming emails also reveal the scale of the defence infiltration in the case.
So far DC
John McDonald (45) is the only serving officer who has been arrested and
bailed. DI Walters, Knuckey and Hunter also arrested are all on police bail.
RISC
Management Limited was the private detective agency hired by Speechly Bircham
Solicitors to provide Ibori’s legal team with assistance with the ongoing
police investigations. Documents now show that the private detectives were in
fact working closely with the police helping them build a case against Ibori
and others.
The
sensational emails uncovered reveal the degree of the inappropriate
relationships as between the private detectives and the serving police
officers.
They
conclusively establish that Keith Hunter has lied to British MPs. Having
repeatedly and categorically denied in written statements submitted to
Parliament any communication with the Police by RISC during the Ibori
investigation, these emails irrefutably demonstrate that Hunter has deceived
British Parliament - the very heart of the British integrity.
The following
comments have been extracted from the suppressed emails in which Cliff Knuckey
of RISC Management Limited some of which had been copied to Hunter.
Excerpts
read:-
“I know Gary
Walters and he is “totally out of his depth” in this investigation”
“Knowing Mr
Gardiner [a senior police detective] has an unhealthy habit of being over
economic with innuendo; rumour; and misguided interpretation…. Some of Mr
Ibori’s answers …could be manipulated…”
“I had a
telephone conversation with DCM late last week..”
“I will meet with
DCM next week to find out what is happening”
“DCM and his
colleagues will be on a very large fishing expedition for information..”
“DCM no
longer has the ability to make a decision to charge..”
“I know DCM
is in the UK all next week”
“Peter Clark will
take the lead role in interviewing you with DC Macdonald being present..”
RISC
operatives knew full details on the police investigation. They knew the
whereabouts of the police officers and could contact them at any point in time.
They appear to have been in regular telephone conversations, they knew who the
interviewing officers were how the interviews were going to be conducted - all
matters which the police officers were not authorised to divulge.
One of the
most damming emails reads:
“I have fixed
a meeting with DCM on Monday and will undoubtedly get an understanding of what
the current difficulties are being faced by the police.”
“DCM” is the
same DC [John] McDonald, the lead case officer who initiated the Ibori
investigation in 2005 and has been pursing the case for 7 years.
This email
was sent the day after a RISC operative, Cliff Knuckey had handed over £5,000
to DC McDonald after a 7 hour lavish wining and dining session.
McDonald as a
serving police officer was not authorised nor permitted to divulge details
surrounding police investigations.
The Crown
Prosecution Service prosecuting were under a legal duty to provide the defence
teams with all documents they had, however, according to defence lawyers none
of the emails which contain the highly incriminating evidence of illegal
conduct have ever been provided. These failings may well may amount to further
grounds of gross misconduct and a wider conspiracy to pervert the course of
justice.
New Scotland
Yard is refusing to confirm or deny whether any other officers in its
corruption unit are currently being investigated. Rumours are rife as other
officers; DC Irons and DC Greenwood are believed to have known about the
corrupt payments in May 2008 and are believed to have conspired with McDonald
to suppress the documents or participated.
The
anti-corruption police investigation is being widely and closely watched as
attempts of another Met police “cover up” similar to the original phone hacking
scandal is expected."
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